Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a strong crosswind I sighted over my mentor 's left shoulder during the approach , only moving my head from side to side in the final stages to get a symmetrical perspective for the flare . |
| 2 | With a trembling hand I turned over the paper which was face down . |
| 3 | After a fitful sleep I set off alone next morning in the welcome warmth of the sun to climb the higher of two small rock peaks rising to the east of the Panch Pokhari . |
| 4 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 5 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 6 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 7 | Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket . |
| 8 | A little idea I picked up during a sojourn among the dipsomaniacs of Mother Russia . |
| 9 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 10 | And from I was a little girl I went round with Mama cleaning the house . ’ |
| 11 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 12 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
| 13 | It 's a good job I come over is n't it ? |
| 14 | Oh yeah yeah they 've had a good time I think down there |
| 15 | That was the brief for a one-person project I took on with the late schools council some four years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ You wrote an article about Eliot in a feminist magazine I picked up in Blackwell 's . |
| 17 | They were just , it was just a one day I went round there shopping and they had , and I bought some beige ones for the kitchen . |
| 18 | That 's a new component I put on there and that would be updated , yeah . |
| 19 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 20 | I look on myself as a fun golfer I go off with my mates on golfing weekends and have taken my clubs to Spain , Tunisia , Portugal and the USA . |